{"id":218049,"date":"2025-07-16T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-most-massive-black-hole-merger-ever-seen"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:13:39","slug":"the-most-massive-black-hole-merger-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/the-most-massive-black-hole-merger-ever-seen","title":{"rendered":"The most massive black hole merger ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-most-massive-black-hole-merger-ever-seen.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These black holes were whirling at speeds nearly brushing the limits of Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, forcing researchers to stretch existing models to interpret the signal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/breathtaking-images-gamma-ray-flare-supermassive-black-hole-m87\/94588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Breathtaking images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Black holes this massive are forbidden by standard stellar evolution models,\u201d says Professor Mark Hannam from Cardiff University. \u201c<em>One explanation is that they were born from past black hole mergers, a cosmic case of recursion.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These black holes were whirling at speeds nearly brushing the limits of Einstein\u2019s theory of general relativity, forcing researchers to stretch existing models to interpret the signal. Breathtaking images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87 \u201cBlack holes this massive are forbidden by standard stellar evolution models,\u201d says Professor Mark Hannam from Cardiff University. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}